Shyvana

This Build Guide is for Shyvana being played on Summoner's Rift. This guide for Shyvana shows how she is a tanky jungle champion with one of the fastest jungle clear speeds in the game. The author is the current coach for Curse.

Item Build

Starting Items

Machete allows you to clear even faster and sustain through the jungle. You need this to convert later into Stalker's Blade with Trailblazer enchantment.

Core Items

Vampiric Scepter

Enchantment: Juggernaut

Ninja Tabi

Juggernaut is an amazing enchantment overall. It gives you Health and cooldown reduction for your abilities, which is a great stat on Shyvana.

Ninja Tabi are the choice boots on her since Juggernaut already gives you Tenacity. Ninja Tabi are good versus a heavy ad team as they scale very well into lategame due to its passive component.

The Vampiric Scepter can eventually be converted into a Blade of the Ruined King if you can afford an aggressive item. It will give you insane sustain, considering you are now a manaless champion who can use jungle creeps to heal back to full health.

Endgame Items

Full Game Build

Blade of the Ruined King

Sunfire Cape

Randuin's Omen

Locket of the Iron Solari

Ninja Tabi

Enchantment: Juggernaut

Oracle's Lens (Trinket)

This item set will make you very tanky while also dealing good damage. Shyvana's base damage is innately high, which makes Blade of the Ruined King a good choice as the only aggressive item to buy. Your Q will double-proc it, taking away 10% of the target's health with one hit. This item together with Randuin's Omen will also provide you a new form of CC, which Shyvana can really put to good use. Sunfire Cape is a great mixed offensive and defensive item. You will be very tanky, which means you will survive for a long time during teamfights, dealing a lot of dps around you with its passive. Locket of the Iron Solari is a good supportive item to help your team, which can be replaced with other Magic Resist items.

Optional Items

Spirit Visage

Thornmail

Trinity Force

Banshee's Veil

If you are fed and want more damage you can build Trinity Force on Shyvana. She can use almost all the stats the items gives you, and it will make you even faster. The procs from the Sheen component will hurt squishies as well as tanks and will make you even harder to itemize against.

Spirit Visage and Banshee's Veil are good substitutes for Locket as your Magic Resist item. Banshee's is a great item to build if you have trouble engaging, as it will help you avoid being knocked back after you ult. Spirit Visage is a straightforward overpowered item that will grant you lots of cheap stats.

If you are facing a full AD team or a fed Marksman, Thornmail may be the option you're looking for.

Although I find that Saint has a lot of game knowledge and is a good and insightful player in his own right, his guides just flat out stink. No thought to them, and they often go months and months without getting updated.

Although I find that Saint has a lot of game knowledge and is a good and insightful player in his own right, his guides just flat out stink. No thought to them, and they often go months and months without getting updated.

I hope this guide will be updated. Plenty of changes have been made recently that make Shyvana a really happy dragongirl. Wit's end changes, fury generation tweaks and E buff to name the most important ones, quite enough to shake up a build.

But...but...like every other guide out there, the oddone and others all go with machete on shyvana. And I mean when's the last time saint played shyvana? He used to main her but not anymore Just look at the item build... Who gets black cleaver on a champ with primarily magic damage? I mean yeah the CDR helps and maybe the armor shred helps the team, but her E already shreds armor and there are many cooler and more beneficial choices like the new zekes

I have a decent amount of Shyvana games in now, I'm 1510 in 3s with her 8-0, and I was curious as to everyones opinion on Ionic Spark. It seems as if it does more damage in team fights than Wits End, and if you use your Q while in Dragon's Descent it instantly procs if you cleave 2 additional opponents. I found that with Ionic Spark, Wit's End and Sunfire Cape, along with W and E gives you a massive amount of magic damage that most teams won't expect from a Shyvana.

I go Wriggles, Merc/Tabi, Aegis, Wit's if they're heavy magic, Spark if not, Sunfire, and then Wit's or Spark, whichever you didn't get. This build is for 3s, and for the most part it's fairly cheap, I find her AoE burst is unreal so I just wanted to share this with all of you, feedback is appreciated.

Ionic spark is a fun item imo. Wit's is so much better in general. i understand that you aren't saying ionic is better than Wits, but for cheaper gold, you actually do more damage and gain tank stats. Also it's a waste of an item slot for a champion that i believe is very item dependent once mid game transfers to late.

I would never use this build in 5s. You're absolutely right, it doesn't transfer to late game at all. In 3s there is no late game though. I'm simply sharing how I got to gold in 3s in a day with everyone. I think that's valuable knowledge to share ^.^